fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
3 months agoMeet the former auction heavyweights remodelling the art market as advisers
Without the vast overheads of auction houses and galleries, the leaner, nimbler, more discreet advisory model chimes with a cautious market. "Many of us advisors have thought, what about a Super Advisory firm: taking five specialists from different departments in the auction houses and putting them to work without the overheads," says Josh Baer, author of the Baer Faxt trade newsletter and himself an art adviser.